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Beats
noun 1.A United States youth subculture of the 1950s; rejected possessions or regular work or traditional dress; for communal living and psychedelic drugs and anarchism; favored modern forms of jazz (e.g., bebop). Synonyms: beat generation, beatniks.
Beat
verb (past beat; past part. beaten; pres. part. beating) 1.Come out better in a competition, race, or conflict. Synonyms: beat out, crush, shell, trounce, vanquish. "We beat the competition" , "Harvard defeated Yale in the last football game" 2.Give a beating to; subject to a beating, either as a punishment or as an act of aggression. Synonyms: beat up, work over. "The teacher used to beat the students" 3.Hit repeatedly. "Beat the table with his shoe" 6.Make a rhythmic sound. Synonyms: drum, thrum. "The drums beat all night" 7.Glare or strike with great intensity. 8.Move with a thrashing motion. Synonym: flap. "The eagle beat its wings and soared high into the sky" 9.Sail with much tacking or with difficulty. 10.Stir vigorously. Synonym: scramble. "Beat the cream" 11.Strike (a part of one's own body) repeatedly, as in great emotion or in accompaniment to music. "Beat one's foot rhythmically" 12.Be superior. "This sure beats work!" 13.Avoid paying. Synonym: bunk. 14.Make a sound like a clock or a timer. Synonyms: tick, ticktack, ticktock. "The grandfather clock beat midnight" 15.Move with a flapping motion. Synonym: flap. 16.Indicate by beating, as with the fingers or drumsticks. 17.Move with or as if with a regular alternating motion. Synonyms: pulsate, quiver. 18.Make by pounding or trampling. 19.Produce a rhythm by striking repeatedly. 20.Strike (water or bushes) repeatedly to rouse animals for hunting. 22.Be a mystery or bewildering to. Synonyms: amaze, baffle, bewilder, dumbfound, flummox, get, gravel, mystify, nonplus, perplex, pose, puzzle, stick, stupefy, vex. "Got me--I don't know the answer!" , "A vexing problem" , "This question really stuck me" noun 1.A regular route for a sentry or policeman. Synonym: round. 2.The rhythmic contraction and expansion of the arteries with each beat of the heart. Synonyms: heartbeat, pulsation, pulse. 3.The basic rhythmic unit in a piece of music. Synonyms: musical rhythm, rhythm. "The conductor set the beat" 4.A single pulsation of an oscillation produced by adding two waves of different frequencies; has a frequency equal to the difference between the two oscillations. 5.A member of the beat generation; a nonconformist in dress and behavior. Synonym: beatnik. 6.The sound of stroke or blow. 8.A regular rate of repetition. 10.The act of beating to windward; sailing as close as possible to the direction from which the wind is blowing.
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